Constance Pascal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Constance Pascal

French psychiatrist (1877-1937)

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1877

Place of Birth: Pitești, Arges, Romania

Date of Death: 21-Dec-1937

Profession: psychiatrist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Constance Pascal was a Romanian-born psychiatrist who practised in France and became the first woman psychiatrist and the first women head doctor of a psychiatric hospital in France.
Best known for her work on dementia praecox, she researched the social as well as the biological causes of mental illness.
Pascal founded one of the first ‘medical-pedagogic’ institutes in France.
Her monograph, Chagrins d'amour et psychoses (1935), reflected her wide cultural interests.